The Topeka Daily Capital Saturday June 3, 1939 D.S. Farley, Retired Santa Fe Man, Dead. Had Been in Failing Health For Several Months. D.S. FARLEY, retired assistant general manager of the Santa Fe eastern lines, died Friday afternon in the Santa Fe Hospital, following a long illness. He had been in failing health for several months but his condition did not become serious until a few days ago. Farley had been an employe of the Santa Fe for fifty-one years, before retiring July 1, 1938. on his retirement as assistant general manager of the eastern lines, he was succeeded by J.A. Gillies, who came to Toppeka from LaJunta, Colo. In recent months he and Mrs. Farley had traveled, making their home at the Hotel Jayhawk. His death was a shock to all the Santa Fe employes, not only in Topeka, but all over the entire system. Mr. Farley was born in Albion, Mich., in 1870, a city to which his grandfather came in a prairie schooner. A few years later his parents took him to Denver, Colo., where they made their home. As a young man he worked part time for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad as a messenger. he resigned to accept a similar job with the Santa Fe, October 15, 1887, and received a salary of $20 a month. Promoted Rapidly. Ambitious, fired with enthusiasm in his work for the railroad, he was promoted rapidly, held every job in the Denver office. Farley was transferred to Pueblo as chief clerk when the Santa Fe consolidated with the Colorado Southern in 1899. His next appointment was a position of chief cleark at Kansas City in 1900. Seven years later he was appointed agent and superintendent at Kansas City, under F.C. Cox, then general manager. He was transferred to Amarillo, Texas, July 1, 1915, to become superintendent of the territory now known as the Plains and Slayton divisions, a job that required pioneering and stamina. Two years later A. Ewing, now Topeka Santa Fe official, was appointed superintendent of the Slayton Division. June 20, 1917, Farley made superintendent at Dodge City and in 1921 he was appointed assistant general manager of western lines at Topeka, succeeding R.J. Parker of Amarillo, at Parker's death. He was known and loved widely over the entire Santa Fe System. Topekan knew him as one of the best-liked Topeka Santa Fe officials. Elaborate Dinner. An elaborate dinner was prepared for him at the Hotel Jayhawk on the even of this fifieth anniversary with the Santa Fe, October 15, 1937. Officials from all over the system attended the dinner. He and Mrs. Farley made their home in Topeka for many years at 1216 Fillmore Street. Besides his wife he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. J.E. CHALINOR, Kansas City, and one son, Nelson I. Farley, Detroit, Mich. Funeral services will be Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary, with interment in Forrest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Mo. The body will lie in state at the mortuary from Saturday afteroon at 4 o'clock until 9 p.m., Sunday.